1 Chronicles 14:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire. ”

• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When they had left their gods there - The practice of carrying images of the gods to battle was common among the nations of antiquity, and arose from the belief that there was virtue in the image...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  David's Victory over the Philistines. See notes on 2 Samuel 5:11-25 . 1 Chronicles 14:17 . An addition by the Chronicler.

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire. When they had left their gods - (see the note at 2 Samuel 5:21 .)

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Hiram and David. David's Children This chapter reproduces 2 Samuel 5:11-25 with some variations in the names of David's children, and the additional fact that David burnt the idols of the Philis...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And when they had left their gods there. — Samuel, “their images.” Our word is explanatory. David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire. — Samuel, “And David and his men carried the...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  DAVID 1. HIS TRIBE AND DYNASTY KING and kingdom were so bound up in ancient life that an ideal for the one implied an ideal for the other: all distinction and glory possessed by either was shared...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter a most interesting reference is made to the long commercial friendship with Hiram which commenced with David and was continued into the reign of Solomon. Here again the chronicler is...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The account of these wars is so exactly represented before in 2 Samuel 5:1 that I refer the Reader to what is there observed upon them. Spiritually considered, and with an eye to Christ, we may der...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  1 Chronicles 14:1 .

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire. Ver. 12. And when they had left their gods there. ] Their terricula bogey gods. They were now i...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A.M. 2961. B.C. 1043. David is confirmed in his kingdom, 1 Chronicles 14:1 ; 1 Chronicles 14:2 . His wives and children, 1 Chronicles 14:3-7 . His victories over the Philistines, 1 Chron...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Defeat of the Philistines. B. C. 1045.       8 And when the Philistines heard that David...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter runs parallel with 2 Samuel 5:11-25 , and presents a general verbal identity, which is insufficiently represented by the Authorised Version. The only important variatio...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Chronicles 14:3 . David begat more sons and daughters. This list is imperfect, or the sacred writer mentions only the more distinguished ones, or such as were then living. 1 Chronicles 14:15 ....

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter belong to a period of time subsequent to the taking of the fort of Zion, and find their parallel in 2 Samuel 5:11-10 . But if found here in the same orde...

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Defeat of the Philistines

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• 1 Chronicles 14:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 5:2-6 ; 2 Kings 19:18 ; Deuteronomy 7:25 ; Deuteronomy 7:5 ; Exodus 12:12 ; Exodus 32:20

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